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Adele Reinhartz reflects on her career-spanning relationship with the Gospel of John

Reinhartz: “Whether any of my fellow John scholars are persuaded by any of the above remains to be seen. For my part, I am satisfied that I have said what I can, and want, to say about this Gospel. Aside from my growing discomfort with John’s anti-Jewish language, I have gained much from my longstanding relationship with this Gospel, including a community of scholars whom I value and respect. Even as I am eager to turn to other texts and other projects, I know I will continue to think, speak and write about this Gospel, as occasion arises.”

Book Note: David Lambert. How Repentance Became Biblical: Judaism, Christianity, and the Interpretation of Scripture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Stinchcomb: “Repentance is often assumed to be a fundamental, scriptural part of ancient Jewish and Christian piety. In How Repentance Became Biblical, David Lambert argues that, rather than an inherently biblical concept, “repentance” came to be understood as such in a long process that continued into late antiquity. Lambert first focuses synchronically on biblical rituals before turning to diachronic readings of biblical texts and, in the final section of the book, tracing the later intellectual genealogy of repentance as an idea through rabbinic and early Christian texts.”

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